Learn from recent local wins: Communities have successfully blocked, rolled back, or constrained ALPR deployments; this 2025 retrospective walks through examples and tactics you can borrow. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Local Communities Are Winning Against ALPR Surveillance—Here’s How: 2025 in Review

Across ideologically diverse communities, 2025 campaigns against automated license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance kept winning. From Austin, Texas to Cambridge, Massachusetts to Eugene, Oregon, succ...

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"Flock cameras are just one part of a vast ecosystem," @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver warned his audience last night. "Check out resources like the EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, which catalogs each of the technologies used in your area." www.atlasofsurveillance.org/

Ah well I sure hope someone would write a whole book about what a ✨politically alert✨ response might look like ☺️👀

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last wk.

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Been in this exact situation, except this was by a European beach and the guy in question stormed off, found the tallest possible cliff, jumped off it, came back, announced that he found the tallest cliff, then demanded that I email him “proof” so that he can (you guessed it) “do his own research” 🥰

Erika McEntarfer@erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Made the mistake of saying 'AI can't solve every problem' in mixed company in SF, and a guy snorted in disgust and left the table.

Excited to learn last week that colleagues are using our @neuripsconf.bsky.social position paper, in which we debunk common #myths & #misconceptions about #democratizingAI, in their undergrad teaching. We’re starting to track this so if you’re including our paper in your syllabus pls dm/email me ✨

AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

A civic grammar for AI rights

Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...

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Happy to be interviewed in @dazeddigital.com about the feminist, anticonsumerist political & philosophical context of the ongoing cyberdeck renaissance on TikTok! Impressed with the young, politically & technologically engaged women at the forefront of this scene.

In this paper, I show that "looksmaxxing" falls prey to familiar demandingness objections, and we should instead focus our moral energies on "lookssatisficing"

“While energy projects on nontribal lands can face permitting delays of three to 10 years, projects on tribal land often proceed more quickly because tribes wield sovereign authority to handle their own regulations and permitting.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

Big Tech Is Now Targeting Native American Land for Massive Data Centers

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TODAY only: you can pre-order 🤖DEMOCRATIZING AI🤖 for 50% off if you order it through MUP's website! Stop doomscrolling Big Tech oligarchs' whacky manifestos and find out why & how to subject AI to meaningful democratic control: tiny.cc/ege6101 @manchesterup.bsky.social

"This isn't something we normally test for."

Meta's AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly Bacteria

Meta's AI data center campus in Wyoming is in trouble after local officials linked the facility's wastewater to a deadly pathogen.

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Throwback to my talk at an excellent @columbiauniversity.bsky.social workshop in Paris by powerhouses Jean Cohen & @katharinapistor.bsky.social! TLDR: tech oligarchic capture affects multiple spheres, not just one. As I argue in my book, we need frameworks & mechanisms to address *all* of them.

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

quality research and activism aren't mutually exclusive the same way "innovation and regulation" aren't. in fact, an underlying theory of change and vision that drives research strengths the quality of your academic scholarship, not weakens it any way 2/

The bigger threat I see re: pseudoscience & corporate #ethicswashing/ #participationwashing actually falls more into the “people who have absolutely no clue about philosophy (and zero skills in logical reasoning) try to legitimize bogus ideas by using fancy philosophy-esque words” category (9/n)

I feel like there’s actually an impressive amount of philosophers doing important & critical & nuanced & politically engaged & empirically grounded work in this space, esp since this field turned from its originally quite individualist focus to more structural & political & economic questions (8/n)

With that in mind, the characterization of “most” of the subfield of #philofAI as “sensationalizing” & “churning out corporate propaganda” doesn’t sit right with me. Really, “most” of the philosophers in field basically do naive hype/delulu work? Doesn’t match my impression at all tbh. (5/n)

Hmmm…. thread coming up 🤖 I’m 1000% on board with having better convos as a field on disclosure & transparency—as I argue in #DemocratizingAI, potential #academiccapture (in addition to more well-understood and often more obvious regulatory capture) remains a key concern in the AI space. (1/n)

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s no accident that most philosophical work on AI sensationalizes the capabilities of these technologies in ways that manipulate public perceptions and global markets alike. Philosophy can do better than churning out corporate propaganda.

V important reporting as always from @khari.bsky.social. This case arguably generalizes: in many jurisdictions, public sector agencies have been all too eager to deploy tools even when academic experts voice serious concerns yet noticeably recalcitrant when it comes to transparent public disclosure!

CalMatters@calmatters.org · 2mo ago

California admits using high-risk AI — including systems it failed to report last year State officials have found they are using six high-risk AI-like systems that could affect you or someone you love. One year ago, they reported using zero.

Ah so LLMs operate like senior male academics. Who could have envisioned that technology trained on existing texts could operate in a fundamentally conservative nature

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Nancy Cartwright, professor of philosophy at Durham University and the University of California, San Diego, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities. dailynous.com/2026/06/15/c...

Cartwright Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award - Daily Nous

Nancy Cartwright, professor of philosophy at Durham University and the University of California, San Diego, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in th...

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Had a great time presenting some insights from political philosophy about how to do civic tech well at an exciting @sorbonne-universite.fr @sciencespo.bsky.social workshop in Paris! (1) technosolutionism can take the form of harder-to-spot cryptonormative judgments re: feasibility constraints.

Great piece by @rcalo.bsky.social 🤖

Ryan Calo@rcalo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote a thing about cute robots for the @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/robots-...

FYI my book’s index is the most interesting index 💃🏻 #democratizingAI #philosophyofAI #boygenius

You joke, but every morning while you're still asleep, I get up at the crack of time t, have a cup of coffee,and then get straight to Φing.

Lured to Paris by a long trail of croissants and many nerdy conversations about constitutional rights & democracy & AI. Anyone here (possibly post-CVPR?) interested in chatting about technical & policy aspects of #democraticAI #philosophyofAI #AIpolicy: dm me 🤖

here's the discourse dynamic I am talking about: fueled by (possibly well-intentioned yet noticeably noncommittal) #AIpopulism think pieces—easily instrumentalized & weaponized for antidemocratic goals by other political actors.

People often pitch AI as unprecedented. But what if we already have the organizational tools to evaluate & negotiate its use? Our new book Auditing AI opens in the 1980s with the story of the US Network for Organ Sharing how how they test & decide on their algorithms direct.mit.edu/books/book/6...

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AI democratization skeptics & opponents like to obsess over the claim that regular people can't possibly participate bc they lack AI expertise, while simultaneously obsessing over simplistic narratives like "AI populism" whenever people DO exercise democratic counterpower 🙃 #DemocratizingAI